Poor folks aren’t shocked by wealthy parents using vast means to buy an unearned advantage, even if it breaks the law. They’d likely say they’re surprised only that someone in government cared enough to prosecute the case, considering how the elite crowd public office.

The immigrant-protecting Safe Communities Act was filed again this week, bringing another chance for the state Legislature – and all who claim to be progressive, liberal Democrats – to do the right thing.

It is difficult not to think of the hundreds of children spending this holiday season separated from families due to Trump administration policies – but also about how another year has passed without immigration protections being passed in the Massachusetts Legislature.

Are you yelling daily at your television asking why Republican leaders don’t stand up to President Donald Trump? Massachusetts Democrats are hypocrites too. Here’s why the party isn’t calling out fellow Dems over lack of support for the Safe Communities Act.

Democrats want to hold Gov. Charlie Baker responsible for not condemning President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies and agendas, but at the same time they don’t hold themselves accountable for not even bringing the Safe Communities Act up for a vote.

The U.S. Census is fast approaching, with a question not seen in decades asking participants about their citizenship. But census manipulation is not the only tactic being used by those attacking immigrants to inspire fear and lower vote counts in blue states.

Human trafficking for forced labor and sexual exploitation is a global horror – but with 1 in 335 people on Earth living in slavery, don’t be surprised that there have been cases in recent years here in Boston and Cambridge.

During this latest municipal election season, we saw divisive behavior that pitted candidates against each other instead of bringing people together to address the issues. Two years ago it was “Who’s corrupt?” this year it was “Who’s more progressive?”

No one knows or understands what the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals will look like, and fear is growing among 800,000 potentially deportable children and young adults across the United States and 7,800 of these American “Dreamers” locally.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees escaping war and natural disasters in Haiti, Honduras and El Salvador are in serious jeopardy of being sent home by the Trump administration and Department of Homeland Security.